Apologies for the delay, preparations for the Lunar New Year celebrations have taken up much of my time. Since the celebrations will be continuing on for about a week, more delays might occur in the next week. I apologise and seek your understanding.

It was a massive pain to write this chapter; since there was a lot of visualising and thinking involved in it. I hope y’all enjoy it.

On a separate note, as I said when I posted the last chapter of SEly, I’m starting a new fic as well, because this is totally a good idea and nothing could possibly go wrong whatsoever.

The fic’s title has been officially decided upon as A 3% Chance for Glory, and I’ll be using the tag [3cg] for it. For more details on the story itself, you can either take a look at my previous announcement, or you can check out the main page HERE. Alternatively, if you’d like to get right into the thick of it, the first chapter can be found HERE.

As always, thank you for your continued support, and if you’d like to show your support for what I do and the stories I write, please consider donating to me on Patreon. Alternatively, if you’d like to show support in a non-monetary way, I’d like it if you could leave comments or thoughts after reading the chapter – it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to see people talking about my work.

]]>http://extantvisions.com/2018/02/05/sely-3cg-seeking-elysium-volume-3-chapter-1-a-3-chance-for-glory-chapters-1-5/feed/0[SEly] Seeking Elysium Volume 2 END + Editor’s Note + Announcementshttp://extantvisions.com/2018/01/22/sely-seeking-elysium-volume-2-end-editors-note-announcements/
http://extantvisions.com/2018/01/22/sely-seeking-elysium-volume-2-end-editors-note-announcements/#commentsSun, 21 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0000http://extantvisions.com/?p=1756And so we come to the end of the 2nd Volume of this work. Once again, an Editor’s Note is appended to the back, which may answer certain questions. Once again, I’m going to take a short break to recuperate and clear my mind. The next volume of Seeking Elysium will debut on the 4th of February. Last chapter found HERE.

I’ve mentioned this previously, but Volumes 2 and 3 were originally meant to be a single volume. But trying to find a narrative balance between Glint’s development and the upcoming plot developments proved to be very hard, especially since I ended up spending more time than expected on Glint’s arc. As a result, I’ve taken the plot developments intended for this volume and shoved it into another Volume, which then let me focus more on Glint for this volume. In retrospect, the Volume title was pretty accurate. Hooray, me!

What this means, of course, is that the plot will finally be moving forward in Volume 3. The pace so far has been pretty laid-back for the party. This is likely to change in Volume 3. The happy times are coming to an end. In terms of length, I’m expecting Volume 3 to be roughly the same length as Volume 2, perhaps slightly longer. Depends on how much filler character development I can write before getting to the main dish.

Therefore, I’d like to thank all of you for sticking with me thus far. I hope you continue to enjoy my work, and I hope I can continue to meet your expectations with Seeking Elysium.

Now, in completely unrelated news (literally), I’ve started work on a new LitRPG Isekai series that’s meant to be a distraction from SEly. I’ll be working on it very sporadically, which basically means I’ll be adding to it whenever I feel like it. It’s meant to serve as a break from SEly, and a place for all my LitRPG-trope-esque ideas to gather. I’m not putting in nearly as much effort into this work as I am for SEly, so if you expect it to be as good as SEly, I’d advise toning down those expectations. Similarly, I’ll also head off expectations here by stating that unlike for SEly, there will be no release schedule for this series.

I highly doubt that it’ll be good, but I hope that it will be entertaining if nothing else. I’ll probably start posting it up soon, but until then, here’s the synopsis:

[Gacha].

A microtransaction revolution that has taken over the mobile gaming market, offering the chance to attain powerful in-game items in exchange for a small amount of money. A small chance, but a chance nonetheless. A risky gamble, to be sure, but one that costs so little with each try that it ensnares all who fall prey to its siren song.

For some, the [Gacha] is a harbinger of doom. For others, it is a power that elevates them above their peers.

For Brynhildr Weber, it is a form of solace. Suffering from suffocating expectations and a harsh working environment, with the troubles of being someone who looks different from her peers, compounded by an unfortunate name bestowed by well-meaning parents, Brynhildr finds recourse in the little gambles of the [Gacha], the little spikes of happiness that it grants her.

But when she finds a new [Gacha] game on her phone, everything changes. She’s sent to another world, a world of fantasy and magic. Moreover, she’s granted a class that fits her perfectly.

The story’s tentative title is I’ll Seize the 3%! As you might have guessed, the gimmick of this story is that I’ll be deciding pretty much everything by pure RNG. Her weapons, jobs, quests, party members and so on. All decided by a random number generator. No current date on when I’ll start releasing, but look forward to it, I guess.

Some people will probably be disappointed about the fact that I didn’t write out descriptions for all of Glint’s light tricks. My reason for this is twofold. First, because it’s a ton of work to choreograph an entire performance and I quite honestly have no clue where to start. Second, because this chapter itself is supposed to be written by Glint, and he would probably find it unnecessary to write out everything

Anyway, with this release, Volume 2 will be coming to an end soon. 3 more chapters left in this volume, then we get to the real fun stuff in volume 3.

On a completely unrelated note, I might be starting on a new story at some point in the near future. I’ll share more details if/when I make the decision, but it’s going to be more of a side project/distraction, and my main focus will still, of course, be SEly. And my studies. Probably more so SEly than my studies idk.

My chapters are getting a lot longer. For some reason. I don’t expect it to last, but who knows?

The objective this time round was to give a bit of background about Anneliese – a character who, incidentally, didn’t exist in this story until that one chapter with her in the tavern. I literally came up with her at that moment, so now it only makes sense to try and give her something else to do. She’ll have a role to play in what’s to come – though just a minor one.